We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the…

We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise…

— Orson Scott Card

Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us…

— Samuel Johnson

There may be beings, thinking beings, near or surrounding us, which we do not perceive, which we cannot imagine. We know very little; but,…

— Humphry Davy

I think it'd be pretty unrealistic to think we're the only planet in the world with thinking beings. It's kind of a strange conceit.…

— Max Minghella

Clearly, unless thinking beings inevitably wipe themselves out soon after developing technology, extraterrestrial intelligence could often be millions or billions of years in advance…

— Seth Shostak

“What matters is that we’re all thinking beings, and if we are thinking beings we ought to be able to find common ground somewhere.”

— Daniel Waters

If Christians cannot communicate as thinking beings, they are reduced to encountering one another only at the shallow level of gossip and small talk.…

— Harry Blamires

God made us thinking beings, and he guides our minds as we think things out in his presence.

— J. I. Packer

thinking beings have an urge to speak, speaking beings have an urge to think.

— Hannah Arendt

Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions. Intellect, will, taste, and passion co-operate…

— William James

“Thus, when a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce...in the same individual, we have the best possible conditions for the kind of effective…

— William James

The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws.…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Assuming there is an intellect, we're clearly not this universal intellect or we would know it. So that's one function of soul.

— Peter Adamson

I wasn't paid a dime for my track career. But participating in the Olympics gave me the opportunity to learn about different cultures; it…

— Wyomia Tyus

There needs to be some regime that is overseeing access to broadband to make sure we have openess; otherwise, there is a risk it…

— Vint Cerf